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Free Thinking

Radio 4's ideas programme, where leading thinkers explore the threads connecting history, culture, and the present.

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Cover of Daring to be Free

Daring to be Free

by Sudhir Hazareesingh
Free Thinking · BBC Radio 4 · Oct 2, 2025
Cover of Twelve Churches

Twelve Churches

by Fergus Butler-Gallie
Free Thinking · BBC Radio 4 · Oct 2, 2025
Cover of Good Days

Good Days

by Michael Rosen
Free Thinking · BBC Radio 4 · Oct 2, 2025
Cover of Sick of It

Sick of It

by Sophie Harman
Free Thinking · BBC Radio 4 · Sep 25, 2025
Cover of Africanomics

Africanomics

by Bronwen Everill
Free Thinking · BBC Radio 4 · Sep 25, 2025
Cover of The Golden Road

The Golden Road

by William Dalrymple
Free Thinking · BBC Radio 4 · Sep 25, 2025

The Baton and the Cross

by Lucy Ash
Free Thinking · BBC Radio 4 · Sep 25, 2025
Cover of The Burning Earth

The Burning Earth

by Sunil Amrith
Free Thinking · BBC Radio 4 · Sep 25, 2025
Cover of Logging Off

Logging Off

by Adele Zeynep Walton
Free Thinking · BBC Radio 4 · Sep 25, 2025
Cover of Respectable

Respectable

by Lynsey Hanley
Free Thinking · BBC Radio 4 · Sep 25, 2025